Procedures without borders

The language-ideological anchorage of legal-administrative procedures in translocal institutional settings

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2854428
AutoresKatrijn Maryns (0000-0002-8919-3050, Research Foundation - Flanders, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen42
Número1
Páginas71-92
Fecha de publicación2013-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404512000905
OpenAlexW2013302032
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas41

Theoretical and applied research in the field of institutional discourse analysis calls for an increasing awareness of the constitutive nature of discourse in the representation and the assessment of social identities (Sarangi & Roberts 1999; Blommaert 2010; Eades 2010). The staunchly textualist accounts surviving institutional practice, however, tend to obscure complex multidiscursive and language ideologically anchored processes that mold procedural outcomes. On the basis of first-hand ethnographic data collected across legal-administrative procedures in Belgium, this article aims at revealing some meaningful contexts that have been erased in the case of an asylum seeker who became a murder victim and whose asylum file was used in the assize trial as a resource to sketch his social identity. The analysis explores the ideological functioning of textuality in the situated details of communicative practice, thereby aiming for a better understanding of the intricacies of multidiscursive identity construction in translocal procedural settings. (Institutional discourse analysis, multidiscursivity, language ideology and identity, sociolinguistic mobility, asylum procedure, assize court procedure

Aesthetics · Discourse analysis · Ethnography · Field (mathematics) · Identity (music) · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Situated · Sketch · Social group · Social identity theory · Social science · Sociology · Textuality · Anthropology · Comparative and International Law Studies · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Law · Legal Language and Interpretation